[Dbix-class] GOVERNANCE: Aggregation and conclusion

[Darren Duncan]

All authors ARE copyright holders, unless they expressly disclaim or transfer 
said rights, which isn't usually the case with CPAN modules.

Due to all of the copyright holders licensing their contributions under an open 
source license, anyone is legally empowered to create a fork.

It is important to realize that the current governance issue under discussion is 
actually more akin to trademark rights than copying rights, in a sense; it is 
about who has the canonical privilege for the NAME "DBIx::Class" within the 
context of PAUSE/CPAN.

-- Darren Duncan

On 2016-11-07 1:07 AM, Hartmaier Alexander wrote:
> I find it funny that people are discussing forking. If there are so many that
> want a fork why hasn't someone already done it?
> It seems most forget that DBIC is open source software. The license doesn't
> hinder anyone from forking.
> The license [1] says on the first two lines:
>
> |DBIx::Class is Copyright (c) 2005-2016 by mst, castaway, ribasushi, and others. |||See AUTHORS and LICENSE included with this distribution. All rights reserved.| |
>
> Are all authors also 'Copyright Holders'? If yes how does this affect the
> current situation?
> Imho DBIC isn't 'owned' by anybody, not even after contributing for years like
> ribasushi did.
>
> Until someone comues up with another proposal I'm +1 for msts.
>
> Best regards, Alex
>
> [1] https://metacpan.org/source/RIBASUSHI/DBIx-Class-0.082840/LICENSE